Worried about online gaming and security!

Currently playing Quake 4 on my iMac. All of a sudden my cd-key doesn't work with a message "your cd-key is in use", waited a few minutes, restarted and it worked fine.
I'm worried that someone got access to it. Should I be worried about other files, systems, etc... on my iMac. Anyone know of any concerns?
Sorry, don't know if this the right place.

Highly, highly unlikely your system was compromised. Gaining remote entry to your filesystem would've required some kind of trojan backdoor or exploit. And considering that there are very few in existence for the mac, and practically none in the wild, the chance that there would be one stealing Quake 4 keys is about zero.
That message could've been the result of a network error, or a previous login session of yours that hadn't been terminated on their end yet. Also, pirated copies of games often use randomly generated keys, so it is possible that a copy of yours came up. Either way, if it doesn't keep happening, I wouldn't worry about it.

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Dear All,
I have the following network scenario:
An Internal Mail server that forward the mail messages to an external sendmail server that send/receive the mails from Internet.
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From a security point of view, how is important that the internal and external mail server do not has routing informations about the external and internal networks ?I have configured the second pix to perform a port redirection in this way:
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Hi, I have an iMac connected to my aparment complexes' wireless network. I realize this isn't the safest way to be online so I was wondering what I could do to protect my computer. When I open a finder window I see all the other computers listed in the "shared computers" menu and this makes me nervous that mine is showing up in others' finders as well. I would like to know how I can prevent everyone else from seeing my computer on our shared network, and possibly prohibit those that still can see my computer from getting access to it. Sounds a little perinoid I know, but it just bothers me to know people have potential access to my files and such. Also I have an Apple tv and wireless printer. I was wondering if there was a way to connect my own wireless router to my iMac (via the ethernet port) directly so that I would have an exclusive (to me and possibly my roomates) connection to wirelessly print, transfer media to/from the Appletv, and rent and buy things from the Appletv online, but also stay connected to the internet. I hope that wasn't confusing, but would appreciate any ideas.

jbloc,
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Online Gaming and Latency

A couple of us here (my son and I) like to play World of Warcraft.
I'm using a MBP 2.4G with 4G ram and OS 10.5.6
My son uses a MDD Dual 1G with 2G ram and OS 10.5.6 and an ATI 9800 Pro video card.
My network is a combination wired/wireless. When everything is running well I'm happily playing wirelessly. I have been hard wired since the latency issue started in order to take the wireless out of the troubleshooting.
I have done all the normal troubleshooting I can come up with Including:
-Reboot router (Actiontec GT701-WG) and verified current firmware. (Reboot at least daily)
-Run permission repair, cache cleaning, maint scripts, including Disk Warrior
-Have flushed DNS cache
-Have done various game specific tasks - verifies my game files are good
-Have spoken with my ISP and, well, I'm not completely ignorant, but the 'speak' he uses with me is so far over my head, I can't imagine what it must sound like to someone more ignorant than me.
-I've been emailing game support without resolution 'yet'.
-I've been running traceroutes off and on all day everyday
Here is an example traceroute, note hops 8 and 9:
+1110PM 060609 BAD!!!!! 6000ms latency+
+Traceroute has started ...+
+traceroute to 12.129.224.112 (12.129.224.112), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets+
+1 * * *+
+2 65.75.196.129 (65.75.196.129) 45.632 ms 44.771 ms 43.231 ms+
+3 ip-colo-rtr0-todsl.ipinc.net (65.75.192.1) 44.261 ms 43.712 ms 43.333 ms+
+4 207.170.194.201 (207.170.194.201) 43.826 ms 42.971 ms 43.682 ms+
+5 peer-03-so-0-0-0-0.sttl.twtelecom.net (66.192.248.25) 46.688 ms 47.785 ms 46.171 ms+
+6 ge1-1-1-1000M.ar4.SEA1.gblx.net (67.17.109.249) 47.487 ms 46.661 ms 47.153 ms+
+7 192.205.33.237 (192.205.33.237) 47.983 ms 192.205.34.93 (192.205.34.93) 47.169 ms 192.205.33.237 (192.205.33.237) 47.492 ms+
+8 cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.178) 79.614 ms * 1175.552 ms+
+9 * * cr1.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.28.33) 409.047 ms+
+10 cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.3.122) 77.428 ms 77.929 ms 80.495 ms+
+11 gar5.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.128.25) 88.029 ms 76.059 ms 76.741 ms+
+12 12.122.255.74 (12.122.255.74) 77.464 ms 76.538 ms 77.751 ms+
+13 mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.242) 76.843 ms 77.544 ms 77.568 ms+
+14 * *+
The traceroutes show very bad hops somewhere in the line 90% of the time. Sometimes it is hop 2, sometimes in hop 13 and sometimes an in between hop. Occasionally I get a good traceroute, but it seems if I run two back to back one of them is bad.
Bottom line at the moment is .... I'm feeling like the monkey in the middle. ISP pointing at WoW and WoW pointing at ISP.
Any suggestions please. I'm at my limit concerning my knowledge.

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/usr/share/man/man8/mtree.8.gz
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sudo: mtr: command not found
mbp:~ buz$ mtr www.yahoo.com
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mbp:~ buz$ traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com (209.131.36.158), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 65.75.196.129 (65.75.196.129) 94.666 ms 92.091 ms 62.777 ms
3 ip-colo-rtr0-todsl.ipinc.net (65.75.192.1) 43.509 ms 43.279 ms 43.465 ms
4 207.170.194.201 (207.170.194.201) 43.390 ms 43.179 ms 43.565 ms
5 peer-02-so-0-0-0-0.palo.twtelecom.net (64.129.248.19) 61.005 ms 58.430 ms 58.572 ms
6 ae1-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.53) 58.590 ms ae0-p150.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.73) 58.254 ms ae1-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.53) 59.021 ms
7 te-9-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.23) 59.692 ms te-8-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.17) 59.194 ms te-9-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.23) 59.471 ms
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^C
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Guess I must be lucky, all the buttons on my Lumia and N9 are as solid as when I got them, although I've heard reviewers mentioning them being loose, guess it is a matter of wear and tear ?
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BT Infinity and online gaming - has BT changed tra...

We use our internet a great deal for online gaming and a few months ago on our old ISP games started to become unplayable due to extremely slow response times. After a great deal of investigation I discovered the reason for this...
Some ISPs examine the sort of data being transferred and when they think the data is Peer-To-Peer traffic they place this in a low-priority queue. Historically, most people didn't care as 99% of P2P traffic was illegal file-sharing.
BUT, online games are increasingly making use of data packet formats that 'look' like P2P traffic. The gaming data is incorrectly identified as being P2P file-sharing and placed in a low priority queue. This makes online gaming, where responses need to be made in fractions of seconds impossible - you often just stand still for 5 seconds while the rest of the world moves on.
This is what happened with our old ISP and why we looked around for a new provider. Infinity recently came to our area and while browsing the Infinity information on the BT site I was asked if I wanted to speak to a customer service rep. I wasn't expecting a very helpful discussion, but figured it couldn't do any harm to ask a very specific question: "Do you perform traffic-shaping on P2P traffic?" - the rep went away to find out and then responded "BT never shape P2P traffic". (I have screenshots of this conversation as it formed the basis of my decision to subscribe to Infinity).
Flash forward a month. We have Infinity and have been very pleased with it ..until tonight when the same problems started again.
Several speed-test sites report pings about 20ms, download speeds of 30-40mpbs - all very nice, same it has been for the past month.
BUT, tonight all online gaming has ground to a halt.
Typical pings reported in games like World of Warcraft have gone from 50-100ms to about 3000-5000s.
Online chatter is FULL of people asking if anyone else is having problems; and yes, the ones I've spoken to are all on BT.
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Have BT changed their policy ?
Are they now aggressively shaping traffic it thinks is P2P-related ?
Are the problems tonight related to a temporary glitch or a permanent change in policy ?
I'd really like to know as I've still got proof of BT's answer to a direct and specific question about this sort of policy and if it's changed will need to change ISPs and reclaim setup costs.
Any information from anyone who knows about this would be most welcome.

Hi ge1971,
Welcome to the forums I'm sorry to hear of the problems you're having. I've posted an update on this issue here, so if you could keep an eye on that thread hopefully I'll have more info soon.
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4G online gaming doesnt work why? i need someone who actually cares to help me plse!!!

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I live out in the country and have no high speed internet so i bought the pantech UML290 and I have been able to play on the 4g network right out of the box. Plugin, install, and go. I Play Bad Company2 and my ping is usually 142. I connect to a chicago server from okc and my gameplay has improved so much more. I get 2 to 3 bars in my house and it flys on web pages. I had the at@t lightning 3g and my pings on the same server were 185 but spiked up to 999 and back down to 180's . I love this UML290 and do not have Idea why you are having problems. I would return the uml and get another one. You might make sure the other communication software is uninstalled and worst case scenario, reformat the hard drive and start with a fresh install. Can you give a description of your computer specs ? Is this going through a cradlepoint router ? I would be happy to try to help, I know how much it sucks have a laggy gaming experience.

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The imac 24 can't be used as a monitor over a DVI connection or the like, Suzanne, but you may be able to achieve what you want to using "Screen Sharing" by networking the two computers. This lets your MBP effectively control what is running on the iMac.
See HERE for the basic setup. For information about how to access the "shareable" screen from the MBP see HERE.
One possible problem may be actually getting this set-up on the iMac if it is not already enabled, however, unless you can borrow a keyboard from someone (your password may have to be entered to enable it). You may be able to get around this, if necessary, using the "keyboard viewer" (which you can place in the menubar using System preferences > Keyboard, if you don't already have it there).
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PANTECH UML290 DOESNT WORK FOR ONLINE GAMING PLSE HELP!!!

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http://speedtest.net/result/1586999761.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/50309878.png
just tested my speed with the above score... i still cant work out why my line is being slowed down ....
just reiterate that my g/f works from home mon-fri 8am-5pm on a live server including emails etc... the live server would involve being logged on all day checking accounts including various stock levels etc.. so she is very busy pretty much every day..
im online with my PS3/XBOX prob a couple of nights a week plus as i do shift work,on my days off i play COD most of them days .. so prob around 40/50 hours a week playing online depending..
i chose option 2 BT Infinty unlimited because i new i needed a very good line with all mine and my g/fs needs..

I'm really worried about the security of my information. I have just turned on and tried to set up my new Iphone5. It keeps asking for my ex partners login details? She has never had access to my account??

I really dont understand how this works ....? Is this not a helpline??

No, this is community forums.
Did you and your ex ever share an iCloud account or Apple ID?
When is it asking for the info?
Did you plug your phone into your computer to sync with iTunes? If so, it's nothing to worry about probably, it's probably trying to grab and app or something from your iTunes library from her account.

With my iPhone 5s, can I record long voice memo to the cloud and not worry about storage on phone?

With my iPhone 5s, can I record a long voice memo to the cloud and not worry about storage space on phone?

You can't add music to the cloud, whether it will show there for streaming and redownloading depends upon what country that you are in. If you are in a country where music is available in the cloud then you don't have to download the music from the store, if you turn Settings > iTunes & App Store > Music (under the 'show all' heading) 'on' then you should be able to stream purchased music in the Music app without downloading it - your phone will need to be online in order to stream, and if using 3G/4G then it will use some of your data allowance.
If you download an album or a track then it will be downloaded onto your phone. You can't upload music to the cloud from an iOS device. Whether music that you've bought shows for streaming depends upon what country that you are in and if the album or track remains in the store (unless you've subscribed to iTunes Match), and if you are connected to a network.

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